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Friday, September 21, 2012

Lemon Rice

Lemon rice!!
Once i was travelling on Dhanbad Allepy Express. This Train connects extreme of south India to east of Jharkhand and this journey takes more than 37 hrs on whole. We Indians often carry home made food for such a long journey. Sometimes its better to keep interacting with fellow travelers as it becomes easy to pass such long long hours. In the same coach a south Indian family was travelling with me carrying a Tin packed with Lemon Rice for the whole journey. They were very friendly and during lunch hours they offered me a plate full of lemon rice. As a courtesy i accepted the food and to be honest it was mouth watering awesome dish. Since then i fell in love with this simple and serene recipe.
In south India during Pongal they prepare this rice. Also in several other festivals i have received lemon rice and gram curry as prasadam.
Take a note of this recipe:

Ingredients

Rice- 2 Cups (boiled)

Curry Leaves/Mint Leaves/Coriander leaves- Finely Chopped

Mustard seed- 1 Tea Spoon

Roasted ground nuts- 1/4 Cup

Whole gram/Chana Dal- 3 TSP (soaked in water for 1 hour)

Lemon juice- 3 TSP

Salt as per taste

Green Chilly- 2

Turmeric- 1 Tea Spoon

Oil for cooking

Onion- 1 Chopped

Method

Heat 2 TSP of oil in a pan or skillet

Add the mustard seeds

Once they start crackling add the gram and roast it. If u have Curry leaves ,at this point of time add some curry leaves. If you are adding curry leaves then mint or coriander leaves are not require to be added further.